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Daily Archives: August 13th, 2007

Insuring the rich stay rich

Monday, August 13, 2007

Must reading by Dean Baker at Truthout (Welfare as We Know It Now): In the days before welfare reform, single mothers could collect five or six hundred dollars a month without working. That was what welfare looked like before 1996. In the Internet Age, welfare is about having the government do everything it can to […]

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Nice work if you can get it

Monday, August 13, 2007

I don’t know the precise hole into which Karl Rove will now crawl, but one candidate, at least as a sideline, is the scam in which Linda Chavez, Reagan’s (and Bush’s proposed) Hispanic conservative is currently engaged. According to the Washington Post, she and her equally loathsome husband run three PACs, which have soaked over […]

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